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What is LIS?
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LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?
The Geography of Inequality in Egypt: Decomposition Analysis and Regional Trends over 1999-2017
Using the Egyptian ERFLIS data, this article further dissects the national inequality levels by breaking them down to the regional level.
Analyzing Migrant Wealth Gaps in Cross-National Perspective Using LWS Data
This article explores wealth disparities between migrant and native populations using data from the Luxembourg Wealth Study.
Socio-demographic Changes and Income Inequality
This article explores how these socio-demographic changes have impacted income inequality in six continental European countries over a thirty-year period.
Call for papers for the 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference 2025
We invite scholars in the field of comparative economic inequality to contribute to the 2nd III/LIS Conference